“Adacnarca nitens Pelseneer, 1903 (Figs 38, 39, 40, 43)
Adacnarca nitens Pelseneer, 1903: 24, 41, pl. 7. figs 83-88; Lamy, 1906a: 51; Lamy, 1906b: 19; Smith, 1907: 5; Mortensen, 1909: 20, pl. 2 figs; Lamy, 1910: 393; Lamy, 1911a: 27; Hedley, 1911: 3; Thiele, 1912: 228; Smith, 1915: 76; Hedley, 1916b: 22; Soot-Ryen, 1951: 13; Carcelles, 1953: 212, pl. 5. fig. 100; Powell, 1958: 175; Powell, 1960: 173; Dell, 1964a: 172; Nicol, 1966: 31, pl. 4, figs 9, 10; Arnaud, 1973: 556; Egorova, 1982: 61, figs 262-265.
MATERIAL EXAMINED: TAE Stns 4, 78, 79, 98, 100; NZOI Stns A448, A4449, A456, A459, A466, A468, A469, A470, A471, A520, A530, A537, A625; Stanford University Stns EAD-2, GLD-4, GLD-5, GLD-13, GLD-16, B, V, V-2, 61D; Eltanin Stns 219, 410, 412, 416, 418, 428, 436, 437, 439, 441, 445, 1001, 1003, 1078, 1079, 1581, 1885, 1996, 2016, 2029, 2031, 2036, 2045, 2047, 2050, 2060, 2065, 2068, 2070, 2099, 2110; Hero Stns 20, 23, 23, 26, 33, 464; VIMS Wilkes Stns TAT, DAV, DAW, DAX; British Antarctic Survey Stn E514, 68°11'S, 67º00'W, Stonington Island, Antarctic Peninsula, 31 m, 11 Feb 1949; Swedish South Polar Expedition Stns 5, 6, 34; about 3 km west of Cape Spencer-Smith, White Island, McMurdo Sound, 100 m, offshore, 67 m, University of Canterbury, Dec 1976-Jan 1977.
DISTRIBUTION: Adacnarca nitens is a circumantarctic species which extends to the South Shetlands, South Orkneys and South Sandwich Islands to South Georgia. Throughout its range it has been recorded in 8-2350 m. In the Ross Sea it is known in 8-923 m.”
(Dell, 1990: 31)
